Title Dreams in double time : on race, freedom, and bebop / Jonathan Leal

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) : illustrations Series Refiguring American music Refiguring American music. Contents After-hours -- Layered time -- Quartered notes -- Among others Summary "Dreams in Double Time examines how bebop, a musical genre developed by Black experimentalists in the 1940s, was especially generative for nonwhite listeners in the years following World War II. To construct this cultural history of jazz, Jonathan Leal links three (audio)biographical narratives: James T. Araki, a Nisei multi-instrumentalist and scholar credited with helping introduce bebop to Japan during the Allied Occupation; Raúl R. Salinas, a Mexican American poet, jazz critic, and activist working against the American criminal justice system who helped document East Austin's rich music histories; and Harold Wing, an Afro-Chinese American drummer, pianist, and songwriter who performed with bebop pioneers before eventually working as a public servant in Newark's City Hall in response to the uprisings of the late sixties. The book begins with a cultural history of the emergence of bebop in Harlem and then dedicates a chapter to each of these figures, contextualizing their stories and building connections between their stories. Grounded in musical practice, relational study, and personal narrative, Dreams in Double Time offers a powerful and poetic cultural history of communal creativities in the postwar years"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Araki, James T. Raúlrsalinas, 1934-2008. Wing, Harold. Raúlrsalinas, 1934-2008 Jazz -- History and criticism Jazz -- Japan -- History and criticism Bop (Music) -- History and criticism Jazz -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Music and race -- United States -- History -- 20th century MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General. Bop (Music) Intellectual life Jazz Jazz -- Social aspects Music and race Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Japan New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022045888 ISBN 1478024585 9781478024583

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